The Winery Achim Hochthurn of Rheinhessen

Winery Achim Hochthurn - Blanc de Noir
The winery offers 30 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 2036 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Achim Hochthurn is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 30 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Achim Hochthurn wines

Looking for the best Winery Achim Hochthurn wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Achim Hochthurn wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Achim Hochthurn wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Achim Hochthurn

How Winery Achim Hochthurn wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of andouillette with mustard sauce, quick salmon and zucchini lasagna or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Achim Hochthurn. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn

  • 2014With an average score of 4.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn.

  • Chardonnay
  • Gelber Muskateller
  • Grauburgunder

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top red wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Achim Hochthurn

How Winery Achim Hochthurn wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pork sautéed with chinese noodles, veal chop with mushrooms or moist parmesan steak.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Achim Hochthurn.

  • Regent
  • Dornfelder

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Achim Hochthurn

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Achim Hochthurn.

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

News about Winery Achim Hochthurn and wines from the region

Historic cottage with English vineyard listed for sale

Sealwood Cottage Farm in Derbyshire, central England, has been put up for sale with a guide price of £1.4m ($1.66m). A five-bedroom, Grade II-listed cottage is the focal point for the 8.68-hectare (21.44 acres) estate, but it also features a vineyard of around 1.6ha established by the current owners, John and Elisabeth Goodall. Listing agent Fisher German said the Swadlincote-based estate’s guide price doesn’t include ‘any apportionment of the [wine] business’, but the owners would be ‘open to s ...

European Parliament rejects health warnings on wine labels

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Strasbourg have backed amendments to a range of recommendations put forward by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), which included a proposal for health warnings on wine and drinks labels.  BECA’s report, ‘Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer’, included several measures designed to reduce harmful alcohol use by at least 10% by 2025.   Signed by French oncologist and politician Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, it is part of ...

Ancient elites drank wine infused with vanilla, says study

Researchers examining remnants of jars dating back to the kingdom of Judah found evidence that royal elites in Jerusalem may have been drinking wine ‘flavoured with vanilla’. It’s already known that wine has a long history in the region, and some studies suggest wines contained added spices or herbs. Yet researchers said they were surprised to find traces of vanillin in some of the ancient storage jars, which were excavated from debris caused by the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE ...

The word of the wine: Heady

Said of a wine rich in alcohol, powerful and expressive.